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I also found this article incredibly fascinating. I thought it was interesting how the perception of Barceló as an "immoral woman" who "dressed outrageously" was then generalized to include all of the women in Santa Fe. A factor that contributed to Barceló's notoriety was suspicions of her running a brothel. Surely there were also a smattering of white women engaged in the same act of "moral laxity", although perhaps not of the same caliber as Barceló. However, the overall perception of white women still remained pure and chaste while the women of Santa Fe were perceived in a whole new manner because of just one woman. --Anna Holman | I also found this article incredibly fascinating. I thought it was interesting how the perception of Barceló as an "immoral woman" who "dressed outrageously" was then generalized to include all of the women in Santa Fe. A factor that contributed to Barceló's notoriety was suspicions of her running a brothel. Surely there were also a smattering of white women engaged in the same act of "moral laxity", although perhaps not of the same caliber as Barceló. However, the overall perception of white women still remained pure and chaste while the women of Santa Fe were perceived in a whole new manner because of just one woman. --Anna Holman | ||
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| + | Erin--thanks for the link! It seems to me that Barceló was an amazing woman, one of those larger-than-life characters that make such excellent stories. I found it interesting how Gonzalez tried to separate the facts of Barceló's life from the fictions created and written about her. Her true life and nature are very much a mystery, cross-referenced from accounts of the period. --Sarah Smethurst | ||
== Susan Shelby Magoffin’s diary about her first days in Santa Fe, 1846 == | == Susan Shelby Magoffin’s diary about her first days in Santa Fe, 1846 == | ||
